The Arsenal was the name of the online digital storefront on the Cracked Egg Studios web site beginning February 15, 2006 until roughly 2010. It sold physical copies of company media releases, and later, other various merchandise.
The first iteration of The Arsenal listed various DVD releases, such as Ni-Ki-Oh! DVDs, for sale. It was hosted as a static HTML page until June 18, 2006, when the entire web site architecture was combined into the CES Forum, and The Arsenal was converted to PHP scripts. Due to incomplete web site backups and a tendency to delete files once they were no longer in use to save disk space, these early versions of the product pages are no longer extant.
On December 25, 2006, the web site began its upgrade to version 6.0, and The Arsenal was taken offline to be converted into Crackipedia pages. When the update was announced as completed on February 16, 2007, The Arsenal was not mentioned in the announcement, its content remained inaccessible or missing, and its merchandise thus remained unavailable for sale.
The Arsenal remained defunct until CES VaultWiki was released in June 2008, when it finally became used solely for VaultWiki's product pages. The Arsenal did not begin selling physical merchandise again until February 26, 2009, when it added t-shirts.
The Arsenal was renamed simply The Store in 2010, although some references to the original name still remained for years afterwards.
History
On January 31, 2006, Cracked Egg Studios acquired Noey Productions. Similar to the studio's "The Vault," the Noey company web site maintained information about its own projects in a page called "The Arsenal." On February 15, 2006, Cracked Egg Studios opened its online storefront, naming it after the Noey page.The first iteration of The Arsenal listed various DVD releases, such as Ni-Ki-Oh! DVDs, for sale. It was hosted as a static HTML page until June 18, 2006, when the entire web site architecture was combined into the CES Forum, and The Arsenal was converted to PHP scripts. Due to incomplete web site backups and a tendency to delete files once they were no longer in use to save disk space, these early versions of the product pages are no longer extant.
On December 25, 2006, the web site began its upgrade to version 6.0, and The Arsenal was taken offline to be converted into Crackipedia pages. When the update was announced as completed on February 16, 2007, The Arsenal was not mentioned in the announcement, its content remained inaccessible or missing, and its merchandise thus remained unavailable for sale.
The Arsenal remained defunct until CES VaultWiki was released in June 2008, when it finally became used solely for VaultWiki's product pages. The Arsenal did not begin selling physical merchandise again until February 26, 2009, when it added t-shirts.
The Arsenal was renamed simply The Store in 2010, although some references to the original name still remained for years afterwards.